Good governanceBank and Fund analysis and conditionality on "building efficient and accountable public sector institutions", including issues relating to the Bank's own frameworks for promoting good governance and reducing corruption. Includes: Corruption and anti-corruption, transparency and accountability, human rights, governance and conditionality, national-level coherence between ministries, country policy and institutional assessments (CPIA), decentralisation, legal reform, regulation/deregulation read more background... Items 1 to 10 of 150World Bank revising governance and anti-corruption strategy
The Bank has opened an online consultation on proposed revisions to its governance and anticorruption strategy, which “will redefine and re-position its governance and anti-corruption work.” read article... The World Bank and extractives: a rich seam of controversyAs World Bank projects fail to reduce corruption in the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), International Financial Corporation (IFC) investments in extractives are provoking complaints and protests around the world. read article... IMF loan to Egypt branded as "odious"Social movement Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debts has spoken out against Egypt's military government agreeing to a $3.2 billion IMF loan. read article... IFC's private equity investments cause controversyThe increasing use of private equity (PE) firms as conduits for World Bank lending continues to stoke controversy. read article... World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2011Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2011. This page is being updated regularly. read article... Navigating complex dilemmas the Bank on violence, conflict and peace buildingThe World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security and Development is shifting the language of international policy on supporting peace and development in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Monica Stephen of International Alert examines how the World Bank's operations need to adjust to support peace and development. read article... South African loan to Swaziland hinges on IMF conditionsThe crisis-hit government of Swaziland agreed a 2.4 billion rand ($324 million) loan from South Africa in August, which will be conditioned on the adoption of IMF-recommended fiscal reforms. read article... World Bank's Africa strategy remains rutted in comfort zoneA critical analysis of the World Bank's new strategy for Africa read article... IMF to spend $436 million on office refurbThe April IMF board approval of its budgets for the 2012 financial year (FY), and indicative budgets for FY2013-14, gave the first public insight into the amount the Fund plans to spend on refurbishing its offices. read article... Safeguards consultation, World Bank, 16 April 2011Summary of consultation held at the World Bank in Washington, 16 April 2011 read article... |
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